Technique & Theory

How the tools work and why the pictures come out the way they do.

What this covers

Exposure, development, optics and printing, written for people who want to understand the mechanism rather than memorise a setting. Reciprocity failure, why a polariser cannot be simulated, what a Noritsu scan is actually measuring.

Written by the people on the bench, which means it comes with the failures as well as the results.

Ask us something

If there is something you have never had explained properly, tell us at the counter or by email. Several of these pieces started as a question someone asked on a Saturday afternoon.